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BED BOTTOM. No. 269,242. a I Bagented Dec 19, 1882.

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No. 269,242. Patented Dec; 19, 1882.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT @rricea JOHN G. SMITH, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

BED-BOTTOM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,242, dated December 19, 1882;

v Application filed October 14, 1882. tNomodcl.) I

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN G. SMITH, of St. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and useful Improvement in Bed-Bottoms, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a plan of the improved bed-bottom; Fig. 2, a view in perspective showing a portion of the bottom; Fig. 3, a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 5; Fig. 4, a section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 6; Fig. 5, a side view, showing the mode of uniting the parts of the frame, the clasp being open; Fig. 6, a view showing the clasp closed upon the frame; and Fig. 7, a view in perspective showing a corner of the bed- The-various views are taken upon various scales.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts. The present invention is an improvement in that class of bed-bottoms which are composed substantially of a series of double helical or spiral springs grouped in the form of a bedbottom.

The improvement relates to the means used in connecting the springs.

A represents the improved bed-bottom. B B represent the various springs of the bedbottom. The springs are united by means of the ties O (J, in combination with the hooks b b. The ties O O extend either longitudinally or transversely across the bed-bottom and opposite the springs. The ties are crimped to form loops 0 c, which are made to engage with the springs by passing the loops partly around the upper coils, b, of the springs. The hooks b b, which extend in a direction crosswise to the tier, are passed through the extreme ends of the loops 0 c and hooked over the coils I) b.

The hooks b b are preferably an extension of the upper coil, 1), being, at b carried around the next lower coil and then extended in the form of a hook, b, as shown. This system of ties O (J and hooks b b is used both at the top viated, but more especially to finish the conling it, and also to sustain the springs immediately at the ends a a of the construction. Frames D D are extended around the bottom at its upper, to, and lower, a edges, and the ties (J O at their ends and the hooks b of the end rows of the springs are attached to the frames D D. All of the springs cannot be turned the same way in the bottom it the hooks b are to be attached to theframes D D both at the end a and at the end a of the bottom. Accordingly a portion-say thosein one half of the construction-are turned one way and the remaining springs the other way, and Where the two sets of springs come t gether they are united by the hooks E E, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, the hooks at both ends 06 passing through the loops 0 0 and then hooking onto the springs.

Various means can be used to unite the parts d d of the frame D. A convenient method is illustrated in Figs. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6.. A clasp, F, of malleable metal and having the pointsff, is placed opposite the abutting end of the parts at d, as in Figs. 3, 5. The pointsff are then wrapped closely upon the parts, the points f coming between the points f, as shown in Figs. 4, 6. The clasps F serve to keep the parts d (I together, more especially in the immediate vicinity of the clasps, the parts d d being mainly held in place by reason of their connection with the ties O O and books I) b, for when framessuch as D Dare used the ties G G, aside from connecting the springs, are useful in staying the frames. The books I) b are the niost desirable means for locking the tie-loops o c to the springs B B; but I do not desire to be confined thereto, as other means can be used to fasten the ties O O to the springs B B.

1 claim- 1. The combination, in abed-bottom, of the springs B, the ties 0, having the loops 0 and the books I), substantially as described.

2. The combination, in a bed-bottom, of the loops 0 0, said springs being extended to form the hooks b b, and said loops, springs, and hooks engaging substantially as described.

3. The combination of the spring B, having struction and to provide forconvenientlyhandsprings B and the ties 0, said ties having the the hooks b, the ties 0, having theloops c, and.

. row of springs, B, and a tie, C, said tie having g loops 0 c c, engaging with said springs, substantially as described.

5. The combination of the parts (I d and the malleable-pointed clasps F F, substantially as described.

6. A bed-bottom having a series of helical, double helical, or spiral springs grouped in the form ofa bed-bottom, and having ties extending across the bed-bottom at the face or faces thereof, said ties being fastened to the various springs in the directions in which the 15 ties are respectively extended.

7. A bed-bottom having a series of helical, double helical, or spiral springs grouped in the form of a bed-bottom, and surrounded at the upper and lower surfaces of the bed-bottom with frames 1) D, which are connected with the outer row of said springs, and having ties extending across the bed-bottom and tying the opposite parts of the frames together.

JOHN G. SMITH.

Witnesses:

G. D. MoouY, SAML. S. BOYD. 

